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'Cathy arrives in Alice Springs from cattle country, looking for a new way to live. But new is a serious challenge for a girl who's used to being measured by her actions, not her feelings. Feelings are slippery, like water. Hard to hold onto.
Jay is working for the local radio station, far from his own saltwater people, wary of this no-water country. He's searching for something, trying to survive.
Margie is a wild city girl, up for a good time, confronted by a world she's never known and a friend she can't always understand.
When lives collide at the heart of the country, no one stays unchanged.' - back cover
'More than a love story, this is a bold, confronting book about friendship, love, sex and identity at the heart of Australia, where black and white, bush and city collide.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Dedication: for my father/ and/ for my sister/ for family/ and homeland/ and for love
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Epigraph: 'love is a river/ deep and wide/ love is a river/ it's got two sides/ might be raging/ might run dry/ but love is a river/ Sweet river of life' - Shane Howard
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Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature
Oxford
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Peter Lang
,
2022
24390199
2022
multi chapter work
criticism
'A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and being together began informing literature of a unique new genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing of this period. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of reconciliatory literature. The nexus between resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. Moreover, this book argues it is creative writing that is most necessary for a deeper understanding of each other and of place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2008
2008
single work
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 3 - 9) -
[Review] Love Like Water
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 15 no. 1 2007; (p. 23)
— Review of Love Like Water 2007 single work novel -
[Review] Love Like Water
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 22 no. 2 2007; (p. 43)
— Review of Love Like Water 2007 single work novel -
[Review] Love Like Water
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , April no. 1 2007; (p. 21)
— Review of Love Like Water 2007 single work novel
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[Review] Love Like Water
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February vol. 86 no. 6 2007; (p. 23)
— Review of Love Like Water 2007 single work novel -
Breaching the Divide
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 - 11 March 2007; (p. 27)
— Review of Love Like Water 2007 single work novel -
Where Nothing is Black and White
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 March 2007; (p. 33)
— Review of Love Like Water 2007 single work novel ; Break of Day 2007 single work novel -
Race, Love and Place
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 31 March 2007; (p. 24)
— Review of Love Like Water 2007 single work novel -
Soapy Sheen to Leading Ladies' Emotional Journeys
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 April 2007; (p. 16-17)
— Review of Shearwater 2007 single work novel ; Love Like Water 2007 single work novel ; The Seamstress 2007 single work novel -
Land Rites of Love
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 3 March 2007; (p. 27) -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2008
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 3 - 9) -
y
Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature
Oxford
:
Peter Lang
,
2022
24390199
2022
multi chapter work
criticism
'A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and being together began informing literature of a unique new genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing of this period. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of reconciliatory literature. The nexus between resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. Moreover, this book argues it is creative writing that is most necessary for a deeper understanding of each other and of place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Awards
- Alice Springs, Southern Northern Territory, Northern Territory,